It's great, when chance has been given to the struggling, who has proven to be potent and worthy of that support. AMD has done amazing job. And there's much to do. Maybe one day, Radeon will once again have the parity with nVidia, and better have intel on board of the competition as well. But it's the story for another day.
Just need to give more decent dGPUs (doesn't matter monolithic or MCM), address the mobile products scarcity and supply restrains. As much as work with partners, to give better and cheaper motherboards.
Unfortunatelly, the companies being dumped at the slightest implicationt of issues. But it's so nice, that someone have seen the situation, and understood that, at least the CPU market would have colapsed, if there would have been no competition. It would be also very nice to finally stuck the green behemoth, with the same treatment. But unfortunatelly, all the reachest ones still try to inflate that bubble, with the anticipation of sudden money rain. instead of funding the strong competition, that would hold that monster in check. But, this isn't something consumers can have yet any influence on. At least if AMD wan't so reliant solely on enterprise and datacenter/AI, and gave the chance to consumers to fund them with stong purchases. Eventually, it's dangerous to put all eggs in a single basket.
It was said AMD paid TSMC to build exclusive fab expansions for the n7 process. Why not use older for nodes (maybe not exactly n7, but), that are still very efficient, but cold a lot less, to flood the market with great products with great performance and great value? Maybe it's not the bleeding edge, but it's reliable, have all the issues sorted out, and the waffer price is much cheaper... nVidia did it many times, and thus paved themselves the road to absolute domination, even despite having somewhat inferior products, on inferior node, until they've completely jumped on the very newest and most advanced nodes, even considering they could afford it much earlier.
I just can't get the whole AMD and ATi stubborn idée fixe for getting the newest and most advanced and thus expensive, and least reliable nodes. This maybe suite the CPU branch, due to Epyc being eventually binned down, to the point of lesser desktop Ryzen quad core "garbage", with no dies eventually being lost or wasted.
But for GPUs, while It's great to have some top of the stack to be on the top process. The mid range dGPUs, however, do not require this treatment. They need to be reliable, have good pover efficiency and huge quantity.
Actually AMD had the working prototype/example of 5950 with both CCD having the 3D V-Cash. I think they went for the money and market segmentation, and ended up with the problems caused by shitty MS schedulers.
I think, they've shot themselves in the foot, because many ppl actually waiting for 7800X3D, but went for the higher number partss, with the aticipations that the 7950X3D's both CCD would have 3D V-Cash, just from the experience and info from both 5950X and 5800X3D. People became upset from the fact, and also, because the dies have to be programmed differently, and this it make the usage and scheduling more complex and less stable. They can't try to milk different target audience, with same product. People who went for the X3D, knew what they were going for. And people that need the absolute compute power, with bigger frequency, along with stability, and even task distribution, went for regular 7950X models. So they've lost sales with 7950X3D, and the weird 7900X3D had even tougher times. While people who waited, and got 7800X3D, had the best experience.
Maybe it was a planned efffort, to upsell the 7800X3D, since it comes at pretty steep price, if consider the price difference with higher tier counterparts. So they could sell single CCD with bigger margins, than the CPU with dual X3D CCD, for not equally double price. If that's the case, then it makes sense. Just wish AMD will learn the lesson from this, and the MB and their chipsets crapfest as well, and will roll out Zen 5 and respecive MBs in the sane and well-thought manner.
The entire stock market thing is complete scam and baseless speculations. Some dumb rumours, someone farted or sneezed, the rain has began to fall, and entire hangar of muppets with headsets begin to dump stocks, of perhaps completely stable company, just from the fear of loosing money, that don't even belong to them-selves.
There's some digrace in the fact, that someone's years of hard work and enormous efforts depend on some uneducated selfish greedy folks, who has nothing humane left in them.
Absolutely. AMD went with the lacklustre 2700X (the best they had for that very moment) for the 50th, just several month before the milestone/breakthrough Zen2. There shoud be Zen5 X3D variant, or at least binned Zen4 one. At least on CPU front, they completely dominate, and have many SKUs to chose from.
But, as A Computer Guy have said, the dual CCD X3D, would be the best, and trully special.
The Radeon, on the other hand is a complete dud.
As someone who has both 5800X and 7800X3D, im very happy with both of these. Amazing CPUs. I hope they keep going like this. Intel made me not upgrade to anything new for like 10 years. AMD brought back the spark, the joy of upgrading. If only they had a GPU that's super impressive and decently priced...
